Adams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2013
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 666 So. 2d 767 - Cole v. State · 687 So. 2d 1124 - Foster v. State · Taylor v. State · 617 So. 2d 248 - Sperry-New Holland v. Prestage
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [g]rand [j]ury for the State of Mississippi, taken from the body of good and lawful men and women of Lauder-dale County ... in the name and by the authority of the State of Mississippi[,] ... present that MARY ANN ADAMS [and] JOHN WILLIAM BARRETT in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, on or about the 7th day of June, A.D., 1998, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously and of her malice aforethought or with deliberate design to effect the death of MARY ANN WOOLF, did kill and murder MARY ANN WOOLF, a human being, without authority of law and not in necessary self[-] defense, by drowning her and, if not this greater crime, then the lesser crime of [mjanslaughter for having killed MARY ANN WOOLF by drowning her without any design to effect her death; in violation of Mississippi Code Annotated Section 97-3-19(1) and Section 97-3-33 ... against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.